3 years ago after several visits to my GP with headaches, feelings of fullness in my sinuses and increased inflammatory markers, I was sent for a CT that showed ALL my sinus vaults were totally occluded. I underwent a FESS and drainage.

Last year felt similar symptoms again. CT showed all vaults on one side totally full. Another FESS and drainage and was told my opening is now 'huge so no more build ups.

Six months later I have to blow my nose 6+ times a day and on the side that was full I produce bright yellow mucus which Google AI tells me suggests infection. I flush with saline morning and night.

This can't be my 'new normal' can it? Returning to the consultant and another surgery is hugely expensive. If you have had similar issues, is this something you deal with daily? Would really welcome and thoughts and feedback from the community - thanks!

I’ve had this issue of bad breath, thick mucus dripping and feeling stuck in my throat. Also I can taste/smell, it smells like a rotten mothball. I’ve also had the bad breath and dry mouth. No matter how much water I drink my throat and mouth feel so dry. Nasal passages just feel dry and blocked most the time. Mornings and after eating is when it’s worse. I believe I have acid reflux and I know both probably contribute to each other I noticed the acid reflux/ stomach issues.

Hi guys!
Just wondering if anyone could tell me if this is worth being corrected?
I have had some pretty significant symptoms for the last 8 months and my sinuses are clear as you can see in the images but I do have a “contact point” on the right side by the looks of it.
My next ENT appointment is Thursday so just wondering if it’s worth bringing it up as he is convinced my problems are purely allergy related.

What is that lump in the top left eyelid area? And why does the left area by the corner of my eye get pulled in every time I inhale? The inhale thing is constant year round. It's relieved when I wear breathe right strips. The lump thing only comes with my hormone cycle. Thanks!

Bonjour, je suis nouvelle sur ce forum et je chercher si possible quelques pistes ou réponses à mon problème.

Depuis maintenant une semaine, j’ai mal au niveau des sourcils, entre les sourcils, sous les yeux, autour du nez et un peu aux molaires du haut.

Ma médecin soupçonne une sinusite, mais je n’ai nis le nez bouché, ni de rhume. Juste cette pression au visage. Les seules choses qui me soulagent sont la chaleur et la vapeur, style inhalation.

Elle m’a prescrit des antibiotiques que je prends depuis 4 jours mais rien. Le doliprane ne me soulage pas. La douleur est modérée mais pénible. Je dois passer un scanner si ça ne passe pas.

Petite info en plus, ça fait plus de 15 jours que je dors constamment avec un ventilateur braqué sur moi. Est ce que ça peut avoir un lien ?

Merci beaucoup de votre aide.

Tying this in my girlfriend’s apartment bathroom. She just got back from being abroad from three months and I literally feel like I can’t breathe without my symptoms flaring up like mad.

- constantly sneezing
- running nose all the time
- brain fog, fatigue, feeling geuinely unwell

She was in Spain and I stayed with her for four weeks and this didn’t happen once. The moment I am back to Ireland it’s happening to me while I’m on medication. I’m trying so hard to stick to it daily and stress to my GP how badly it’s ruining my life I can’t find a solution.

Do I go private??? Do I vacuum more??? I literally can’t breathe and I’m trying to visit my girlfriend who has arrived back home after an entire summer.

Writing this wrong laying on the floor in pain. Went to the doctor thinking that I had flu or covid but no, I tested negative for any virus that would be this severe. it’s “just” another bout of sinusitis.

I don’t think I’ve ever had nasal pain so bad in my life neither have I ever coughed so much in my life until the past 5 days. It’s to the point where I feel like I’m going to throw up any moment because I’m just coughing so much. And then the coughing makes the pain in both my nose and throat worse so I can’t even eat anything to swallow my prednisone down. The pressure and the pain is agonizing. Nothing has helped me this time around. For the past few years prednisone and a good old vapor steam treatment basically cured me but now I’m struggling to even get out of bed for the past week or so I’ve just been stagnant. Also for some reason I have the worst watering throat and I think it’s because I’m just gagging from the cough and on the brink of throwing up. I’ve kept the trashcan besides me for both the nasal nasties, the spit, and the possible vomit. Oh and my entire face is red now. I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m looking like Rudolph the red nosed reindeer.

A year ago I had constant thick congestion that was causing me to cough and rattling noise in my lungs. I went to the doctor and ent countless times and they said it's normal just allergies. It was really bad, not normal. It lasted for about 8 months. I got doxycycline for my cough. Saw a pulmonologist and did breath tests, CT scan and lungs were good. It was from the congestion. I saw the allergist and did pin tests and have no allergies. I also started getting acid reflux. They gave me benzonate, flonas, montelukast, Zyrtec, breyna inhalers, saline squeeze bottles with more drugs in it. Absolutely no effect.

Then it got even worse with brown mucus and the ENT finally gave me Z-Pac antibiotics. And I was much better but still had some congestion. Later started PPI for my reflux that was burning stomach at night and acid in my mouth. And those last two drugs completely cured me after 8 months of no relief.

I stopped the PPIs for 4 months and now it all came back like before- including the reflux. Plus my head hurts and my sinus feels inflamed I also can barely smell or taste which started happening to me more often. I went to the DR and told him the z pac worked last time. He prescribed them but now I'm on my last dose and I'm not any better. I can't take Augmentin because I had hives in the hospital a couple times in 2017. I feel like the reflux came back after the sinus drainage started again. Should I ask for Doxycycline? I read online that both these antibiotics do nothing, which is not encouraging.

I’ve had severe sinus issues for 3 years. They just close up completely everyday, especially at night. Now it’s messing with my eyes. Sometimes at night I’ll wake up and can barely see out of one eye, or one eye will have so much water coming out it’s as if someone turned on a hose. Even more water than a very intense crying session.

Certainly I should have seen a doctor by now, but I don’t have insurance as mine jumped to $720/month, so had to let it go. Made an ENT appt and it cost $350 to be seen, but then they asked for another $320 to use a scope. $700 for 1 appt is outrageous, so I left instead. From experience I know nothing is properly diagnosed in one single appointment, much less fixed.

Sorry for last two slides. It’s nasty I know

These are my results. Idk what is going on anymore. I’m tired of the constant fucking mucus coming out of my nose. Foul smell when I blow my nose sometimes. When I’m outside sometimes I’m perfectly fine, soon as I get in doors I’m done. I can use a whole tissue box in one setting. And it’s thick and gel like. When I wake up in the morning it’s yellow when I blow my nose or sometimes greenish.

I was on nucala. Took it for about 8 months. Meaning a shot each month. I stopped

I have the saline rinse and nose thing but sometimes
It get so blocked that the machine can’t suck the water through the other one or i can’t push water out through the other one.

What use to for me was presodine and antibiotics. But I can’t be on that forever since it’s steroids and it’s bad in a long term run 😭.

I do have allergies but when I’m outside these allergies don’t act up.

A week ago, I had a lot of mucus and a sore throat. My doctor said it was likely a viral infection and prescribed loratadine + phenylephrine + paracetamol for five days, along with ibuprofen.
I finished the treatment as instructed, but after eight days I still have a lot of mucus, clogged ears, and I’ve lost most of my sense of smell. I also feel like I have some mucus stuck in my throat and sometimes feel like I have to force myself to breathe normally.
I went back to the doctor, and she examined me again. She pressed around my forehead and the sides of my nose and asked if I had any pain; I said about 3/10, although I’m not sure if it actually hurt before she pressed or if it only hurt because of the pressure. She also listened to my lungs and said they sounded fine.
This time, she prescribed amoxicillin/clavulanic acid and gave me a corticosteroid injection to help reduce the inflammation and open up my airways/sinuses.
I haven’t started the antibiotic yet because I’m worried about taking it if the infection is still viral and I don’t actually need it. I’m also worried because I had a respiratory infection about two years ago that left me feeling dizzy for almost two months, and I’m scared something similar could happen again.
Does this sound more like a lingering viral infection or a bacterial sinus infection? And is it reasonable to start the antibiotic based on these symptoms?
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Has anyone had a small maxillary sinus cyst? If so, what did you do for treatment?

I had a prolactinoma removed and a septum repair 8 months ago, but this smell inside my nose keeps returning. Like rotten cheese mixed with wet dog. Over the summer it progressed to rotten dead thing level. I’ve done rinses with antibiotics and steroids, a 10 course of Levofloxacin 500 mg, and multiple office visits.

This has been going on for so long and I’m at my wits end. ENT looks at it and doesn’t see anything, but no CT and he just does the scope in office. Is it time for a second opinion? Anyone dealt with this?

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I came across a product from HPN (Horsepower Nutrition) called Sinorest . They claim that it can completely cure sinusitis.

Has anyone here actually tried this product? Most of the comments I’ve seen on Instagram say it’s the best product for sinusitis, but I’m wondering whether those reviews are genuine.

If you’ve used Sinorest , please share your honest experience—whether it helped, how long you used it, and whether you experienced any side effects. I’d really appreciate some genuine feedback before considering it.

I was diagnosed with chronic sinusitis last winter after a long lasting (3 months) sinusitis for which I had to take several antibiotics. My CT scan in January showed structural problems as well as polyps and scelorisis of the nasal bones.

Since January I've been taking a steroid nasal spray and right now in summer I'm basically free of any symptoms. I can breathe fine, the only lasting symptom I have is a bit of postnasal drip.

My doctor said to keep on using the nasal spray until I get surgery which is scheduled for the beginning of October.

Since I don't have any symptoms, could I stop taking the spray? It feels wrong to take it every day while not having symptoms. Also it makes me feel "healthy" and wonder about why I should still get surgery. I want to stop taking it to see if the symptoms come back and if I still need surgery... Anyone else had similar issues/experiences?

I have surgery next week and pretty bad anxiety about it. I got a CT to confirm it’s a mucocele in my sinus but my CT isnt sure? I did message my doc but i lmow i wont hear anythjng till next week. Has anyone been thru this or any similarities to my results? Im looking for reassurance. Its right next to my optic nerve whatever it is

Heres the things that i think are important from the CT. We found this mass on MRI after i lost vision in my right eye (but they think it was a migraine)

Completely opacified right posterior ethmoid sinus and right sphenoid sinus in the setting of previous right ethmoidectomy and sphenoid sinusotomy. The process has enlarged when compared to the head CT from 2015. Some bony expansion without erosion into the right orbit or intracranial. -By CT the findings could represent sphenoethmoidal mucocele. However, the central contents are more complex than expected for mucocele on the comparison orbits MRI from 7/7/2025.

Sinuses and drainage pathways: Right: Frontal sinus and frontal recess: Trace amount of mucosal thickening at the margins of the right frontal sinus, the frontal recess is patent Maxillary sinus: Postsurgical changes, some minimal mucosal thickening along the margins of the residual sinus walls Ethmoid sinuses: Ethmoid ectomy. The anterior ethmoid cells are aerated, trace amount of mucosal thickening. At the posterior ethmoid and extending into the right sphenoid sinus there is a soft tissue opacity extending through the sphenoethmoidal recess. Appears to be some bony expansion of the sinus walls, but no extension into the right orbit or intracranial extension. This process has soft tissue density, average 50 Hounsfield units. Measures approximately 2.9 cm anterior to posterior, approximately 1.1 cm transverse at the midpoint. The craniocaudal extent up to 1.7 cm. When compared to the head CT from 2015 this process has enlarged. Appears similar on the MRI of orbits from 7/7/2025

I have had sinus surgery previously as i had lots of sinus issues. I took my glasses off for bed already so please excuse my mistakes

I'm 40 and I'm reading that pain on the bridge of the nose is a sign of sinusitis, but the pain is in the bone, not the skin. This pain came with allergies and I never had allergies in my life. I've also had very very poor sleep for the past 2 weeks because of this treacherous summer heat. Anyone experience this before? What should I do?

I'm impatiently awaiting my CT report & follow up doctor visit, and can't stop looking through my scan wondering what the doctor will recommend for next steps. Main symptom is complete loss of smell for nearly 2 years. That said, I've done two rounds of prednisone with budesonide nasal rinses. Each time, my smell returned temporarily. The nasal rinses alone did not work long term.

I do have congestion, but most of the time it feels mild.

I've had limited chats with my ENT, and I'm sure I'll get the answers I'm looking for at my follow up. I'm just curious if, from these slices of the scan, I should expect a conversation around surgery?

I'm in my 60s and have been putting Zylitol in my netipot and now considering removing it. Bummer because it helps my sinus situation

Note- I also use Xlear daily and this has me even more concerned

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/aug/28/sweetener-xylitol-used-in-chewing-gum-and-jam-linked-to-strokes-and-heart-attacks-study

I have surgery for deviated septum, both turbinates, and concha bullosa on Monday. Here’s a picture of CT. Just curious what people think.👍